Thought for the day

[MIDI Life Crisis]

"Don't mistake activity [as] achievement."
~ John Wooden

[Shooshie]

"Don't mistake activity [as] achievement."
~ John Wooden

Is the converse also true? Inactivity is not necessarily sloth?

Sometimes activity is achievement. Especially getting out of bed when I'd would rather just lie there.
I think Mr. Wooden was frustrated with someone that day.

Shoosh

[stubbsonic]

"work smart." I remember some boss telling me that. But I didn't realize at the time that I wasn't smart. I probably need him to be more specific: "Take your time and think about ways that you can be more efficient-- save steps, etc."

I have students who put in the practice time, but because they don't really strive to refine their playing (i.e., correcting some known issues with their technique, intonation, etc.)-- they end up just wasting time, or worse, galvanizing bad habits. I'm sure I did that along my way, too.

However, over the years, I've found sometimes that the seemingly random and meandering path (which is often my way) can yield very satisfying results-- just not what I might have expected at the beginning. There's now an educational movement based on ancient Polynesian navigators called "Project Wayfinder" which in essence celebrates the less-than-linear path that some kids must take to achieve success.

http://www.projectwayfinder.com/why-wayfinder

[Martini Hill]

Yep...work smarter not harder!

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[HCMarkus]

Enjoy the process.

[stubbsonic]

That.

[Frodo]

Sometimes "nothing" is "something, too.

[cuttime]

“You may be wondering what else I do with my free time. I spend a lot of it sitting around on my lazy ass watching TV. But also do you, so don't judge.”

~ Andy Weir, "The Martian"

[terrybritton]

"Try as you might to do as much nothing as you can, and don't worry -- something will come up."

Terry Britton

[Phil O]

Sometimes "nothing" is "something, too.

I had a music teacher once who told me not to forget to play the rests. It took me a long time to fully understand what that meant.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Sometimes "nothing" is "something, too.

I had a music teacher once who told me not to forget to play the rests. It took me a long time to fully understand what that meant.

I had an English teacher who told me never forget to close quotes.

Frodo?"

[stubbsonic]

"You shouldn't 'should' all over yourself. You should 'shouldn't' all over yourself."

[terrybritton]

"When you approach a problem with a preconceived solution, you have two problems."
--- Marty Faulkner

[kassonica]

Lyric from asong I recorded for a client centuries ago....

"nothing is nothing and that's all there is"

Thought it fitting for this thread...

Not sure why

[Robert Randolph]

"When you approach a problem with a preconceived solution, you have two problems."
--- Marty Faulkner

Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes:

"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use regular expressions.' Now they have two problems."